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Kenzo Tange [1913-2005] Japanese

Rank: 102
Architect

Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents.

Architecture, Society, Design

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There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.	Architecture	101
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.	Architecture	102
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.	Architecture	103
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.	Design	104
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.		105
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.	Architecture, Society	106
In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.	Society	107
Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.		108

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